Presented by:

Ursula Wolz

from RIverSound Solutions, LLC

Ursula has been a member of the "Logo Community" since 1976. She taught computer science at the undergraduate level from 1990 until 2020 when a heart attack while walking up 6th ave in NYC from her class at the New School suggested a re-evaluation of her life style. At the time she was teaching liberal arts courses in Code Crafting (Fiber arts and coding) and Natural Language Processing. Since then she has been consulting on AI in the Textile Industry, AI in Education and is building software for wellness and fiber arts. Most recently she has been working on building a net-zero house on a budget, writing algorithms for 'partial information retrieval with provenance' and debugging bad customer service interfaces as a user. Her most recent Snap! related project that pre-dates Snap! is a "Smart Curriculum" for inspiring fiber artists to teach mathematicians and mathematicians to teach fiber artists. There's computer science in there somewhere.

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Turtlestitch is great for small scale embroidery. But can it be used for other fiber arts domains like quilting? In pursuit of an answer I've explored turtle geometry, cartesian solutions and most recently event driven data capture. This lightening talk will demonstrate where turtles prevail as both a pedagogical and functionally useful tool. But it will also suggest that bridges to task often called 'advanced' in both fiber art and computer programming may be problematic with turtles. This quick presentation will provide a half dozen small projects: (1) pure turtle, (2) pure cartesian, (3) pure data capture, (4) turtles with cartesian, (5) turtles and data capture, (6) cartesian and data capture. Of course there will be commentary on how keeping an open mind about purpose and pedagogy allows the student to define their own goals while learning powerful ideas in fiber arts, computer science and math. Full turtlestitch projects used in this presentation will be labeled as "SnapShotNN" at https://turtlestitch.org/users/ursulawolz or email ursula.wolz@gmail.com

Duration:
7 min
Room:
Online Room 1
Conference:
Snap!shot 2024
Type:
Lightning Talk